Architectural Styles
Florida Cracker
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1870-1912
- Wood framing and siding
- raised on piers or stilts
- Large porches
- Steeply pitched gable roofs
- tall and narrow Double-Hung Windows
- Florida (USA)
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Residential homes
- barns
- outbuildings
- Florida
- Forest Capital Museum State Park
- Forest Capital Museum State Park in Perry
- Capt. Francis A. Hendry House LaBelle
- Cracker House at the Florida State Fairgrounds
- Stephens House at the Manatee Village Historical Park, Bradenton,
- Old Mayo Free Press Building Mayo,
- House of the Seven Gables Mayo,
- Bensen House, Grant,
- Plumb House
- Winchester Symphony House
- Laura (Riding) Jackson Historic House iVero Beach,
- Asa May House Capps
- Miakka School House Old Miakka
- Godwin Family Cracker House
Not grand or monumental, but they did host travellers, especially before large resort hotels dominated Florida tourism.
- Wayside inns / frontier inns
- Boarding houses
- Pensions / guest houses [Small, informal lodging for seasonal visitors especially common in river towns & early coastal settlements]
- Small town hotels
- River and steamboat hotels;Health and convalescent boarding houses
- Plantation guest accommodation
- Early tourist cottages [simple detached Cracker-style cottages rented seasonally – precursor to later tourist cabins and motor courts]
- cabins
- lodges
- Pensacola Historic Village – Boarding Houses & Inns (Pensacola, FL)
- Gamble Plantation Guest Accommodation (Ellenton, FL)
- Fort Christmas Area Cracker Houses (Central Florida) – [Wayside lodging, Boarding rooms]
- Steamboat-era River Hotels (St. Johns River, FL) – Palatka, Sanford, Enterprise
- Old Cedar Key Hotels & Boarding Houses (Cedar Key, FL)
Adaptive Reuse
- Florida Cracker Houses to Modern B&Bs – Micanopy, Mount Dora, Alachua County;
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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